Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 101
If you would only dismiss them from your heels, there might soon be treaties of peace and reconciliation between us.”
Who acts: you, treaties · What happens: dismiss, be · To what, where: sheep, heels
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, treaties), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 dismiss | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 dismiss | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 dismiss | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 dismiss | advmod |
| 5 | dismiss | dismiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 be | advcl |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dismiss | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 heels | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heels | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dismiss | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dismiss | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 be | expl |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 be | aux |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 be | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | treaties | treaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 be | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 peace | case |
| 17 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 treaties | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 reconciliation | cc |
| 19 | reconciliation | reconciliation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 peace | conj |
| 20 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 us | case |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 reconciliation | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 be | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismiss a condition, not said to happen | would | you | sheep | your heels | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from heel=Source | |||
| 2 | be | might | treaties of peace and reconciliation between us | there | soon property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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